Among Mumbai's
more abiding urban legends is the one that the bouquets sold at traffic lights
are actually floral offerings stolen from the city's graveyards. How else, the
logic goes, could the vendors afford to sell flowers so cheap?

The truth, it
turns out, is less morbid. Far from skulking around cemeteries at night and
making off with flowers left there by grieving relatives, certain street
sellers in south Mumbai have a far more reputable source for their wares:
five-star hotels. […]

Schlitterbahn’s record-setting Verrückt waterslide has
garnered plenty of attention in recent months, as it gets closer to opening.
But park officials are learning that attention can be accompanied by rumor and
innuendo.

In the wake of the latest speculation surrounding the
attraction — rumors that riders had gone airborne during a test run — a
spokesperson for the Kansas City, Kan., waterpark on Friday denied any such
occurrence.

“I can absolutely say that no test riders have gone
airborne on the slide, because no test riders have gone down the slide,” said
Layne Pitcher, chuckling. […]

Asked
how he would protect gun rights, Kiehne said he owns more guns and ammunition
than the other candidates and said everyone should own a gun.

When
it comes to mass shootings, “if you look at all the fiascos that have occurred,
99 percent of them have been by Democrats pulling their guns out and shooting
people,” Kiehne said to an audience of about 60 people. “So I don’t think you
have a problem with the Republicans.” […]

Arizona Congressional District 1 candidate Gary Kiehne
issued an apology for the comment he made at a debate in Florence on Saturday.

Kiehne said at the debate: “If you look at all the
fiascos that have occurred, 99 percent of them have been by Democrats pulling
their guns out and shooting people. So I don’t think you have a problem with
the Republicans.”

Here's the full text of Kiehne's apology:

"This past weekend, I made a comment about the
political affiliation of perpetrators of gun violence in the heat of a debate.
I've since learned that the information that I based the comment off of was
inaccurate and incorrect.” […]